Neat manicure is not only a pleasure, but also a necessity for creating the image of a modern well-groomed girl. The nail art industry (from the English nail - “nail”, art - “design, art”) has stepped far forward, because lovers of decorating their nails have a huge scope for imagination.
Length and shape of nails
The possibilities of nail art, of course, are wide. They are limited only by the length and shape of the nail plate: on short nails it makes no sense to make a chic multi-color painting, and on the “stylet” shape some designs may look unnecessarily aggressive.
In any case, the choice is made based on their preferences and convenience in everyday wear. This is especially important to know for those who grow nail plates.
Beautiful nails are a combination of the right choice of length, shape and design.
Classic
Ageless types of nail design are plain coating and French manicure, which is also called "French".
The first option is suitable for absolutely any length and shape of the nail. You can cover both glossy and matte varnishes.
A beautiful jacket on the nails is performed if there is a free edge of at least 1-2 mm. A classic option is to cover the free edge with an even white strip, and the rest of the nail with varnish - either colorless or imitating the color of the nail plate.
French variations
In recent years, French manicure has received many variations of performance, ranging from the choice of different colors and ending with the addition of different types of design.
Often the jacket is the basis for any painting or design with rhinestones.
With its help, you can soften a complex and artsy drawing so that the design does not look vulgar: make a painting on only 1-2 nails, and on the rest perform French manicure.
Simple design
Even if it’s not possible to visit a master specializing in complex nail art, you can find options for the simplest designs that look very impressive. Many of them can be repeated at home.
An interesting option would be a cat's eye manicure. When covering the nail plate, the varnish looks completely standard, albeit spectacular, due to flickering particles. If you bring a special magnet to your not yet dried up nail, then the varnish starts to shift and forms a beautiful strip. As a result, the plate begins to overflow, simulating a “cat's eye” reflection on the stone. Using different types of magnet, you can create different directions of the strips, make them rounded or geometric.
By the way, geometry is also considered to be a simple design style. All that is needed is to draw some even and neat stripes on the nail plate, and the manicure will look unusual, especially in combination with a jacket.
Rhinestones are another option, how to easily and quickly get bright and beautiful nails. Rhinestones can be used to place accents on a drawing, or they can completely lay out the entire nail. The main thing is not to overdo it. Inlays (drawings from rhinestones) are best performed on gel varnishes, since it is on them that they hold well.
A beautiful nail design can be created using sparkles and glitters, which are both in the format of varnishes, and in dry form. The former are convenient in that they can be applied to the nail plate easily and quickly, like regular varnish. The second allows you to adjust the density of application, due to which you can make the nail only a little shiny or vice versa - completely radiant.
Beautiful nails and gel polishes have long been more than compatible concepts. Girls refuse designs with ordinary varnishes, since they last no more than a few days, while gel polish allows you to save a manicure for 2-3 weeks.
Sophisticated Designs
More interesting options for a beautiful nail design are drawings.
Stamps allow you to transfer the finished silhouette of the drawing to the nail. To perform this design, you will need to have several special devices: stencils with drawings, a scraper and the stamp itself. You also need to practice to get used to gently transferring the drawing to the nail. Fantasy is limited only to a set of stencils, and even then you can get beautiful nails if you wish. The drawing is placed in almost anywhere on the nail plate. You can use a varied palette of varnishes or decorate drawings with rhinestones, sparkles, stickers.
Nail stickers work on the principle of many familiar decals. It is necessary to hold the sticker in hot water, remove it, carefully separate the film with the pattern from the paper, transfer it to the nail and fix it with a transparent varnish or base.
Sliders are very similar to stickers. The difference is that they cover the entire nail plate.
Many masters propose to perform literally mini-paintings on nails thanks to different types of paintings, complex inlays, acrylic sculpting or piercing on nails.
Main mistakes
Those who do manicures with a good specialist, it is much easier to decide on the design of nails, as the master usually gives his recommendations and often offers options.
With the independent design of nails, girls often make mistakes, and as a result they receive not beautiful nails, but a low-quality parody of nail art.
- Excessive pretentiousness. With self-designing nails, it is important not to overdo it. The use of rhinestones, stickers, stamps, glitters and bright varnishes is available at home, however, the principle of "all the best at once" leads to the opposite result.
- Sloppy, sloppy. Whatever design you choose, it is important that it is done carefully. It is better to give preference to minimalist geometry, stickers or a jacket than to paint smeared and rickety flowers. In the same way, it will be more correct to coat the nails with monophonic varnish, both simple and with the effects of “cat's eye”, instead of drawing curved stripes - a parody of “geometry” - or making a poor-quality jacket.
- Inconsistency of the length and shape of the nail design. For nail plates with a noticeably overgrown free edge, aggressive varnish colors are not suitable. Beautiful short nails will not work if you overload them with many decorative elements
- Inconsistency of the situation. For those who work in a company with a very strict dress code, bright and varied patterns on the nails are unacceptable.
- Poor coverage. When working with gel polish, you must strictly follow the instructions and select the base, varnishes and top of the same company. Thus, the manicure will last much longer.
- Too much matte finish. It looks cheap, especially when combined with crooked patterns.
What is fashionable in 2018
According to many women's magazines, the most fashionable nail design options are:
- Beautiful design for short nails, which is in fashion this year. It is created due to minimalist discreet drawings and varnishes of nude colors.
- Oval at the peak of popularity. Manicurists recommend combining it with the dark colors of varnishes. It will not look gloomy or vulgar, as an oval softens the sharpness. You can cover four nails with color, and one (usually on the middle or ring finger) to decorate with rhinestones, sparkles or painting.
- Delicate white and pink design colors will be appropriate in many situations. They look cute and neat. In this combination, both beautiful short nails and impressive long ones are obtained.
- “Marble” manicure will look original and luxurious. It is a pattern that mimics the surface of marble.
Another interesting option is to coat each nail with different shades of varnish of the same color.